self-hating

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ hating. First use appears c. 1612 in the work Great Brittans Mourning Garment, of anonymous authorship.

Adjective

self-hating (comparative more self-hating, superlative most self-hating)

1. Exhibiting self-hatred; feeling hatred toward oneself.

   Synonyms: self-hateful, self-loathing

   • 2006 November 2, August Brown, “Don’t get comfortable around them”, in Los Angeles Times:

     When Tim Kinsella, of the pioneering indie rock groups Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, wrote a scathingly sarcastic editorial in the emo-centric magazine Alternative Press imploring every band inside to break up, Bemis bristled at Kinsella’s cynicism, calling him a “self-hating emophobe” in a letter to the magazine.

   • 2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain’s Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-13:

     Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.

Derived terms

• self-hating Jew